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Eugene Barsky receives 2025 CRKN Ron MacDonald Outstanding Service Award
Congratulations to Eugene Barsky, Research Data Management Librarian at UBC Library, on winning this prestigious award.
Library Crawl 2025
From September 2 to 5, get to know your library by visiting all 9 locations for a chance to win a prize.
UBC Library supports Canadian research data discovery in European open scholarship platform
UBC Library has added a new research platform, OpenAIRE, to its suite of data discovery systems, making Canadian research data more accessible to scholars in the European Union.
UBC Library partners with the Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities
UBC Library is pleased to announced a new partnership with the Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities, an initiative that offers a certificate in Digital Humanities for people who participate in non-curricular digital humanities workshops.
Meet Brett Dimond, Program Assistant, Research Commons at UBC Library
Before UBC Library, Brett was a researcher and graduate student. Learn how he leverages his experience to support patrons at the Research Commons.
The quest for hidden gem study spaces at UBC Library with Billie Hu
Billie Hu gives us a tour of her favourite study location and shares with us the many resources within this space.
UBC Library becomes first Canadian institution to join Dryad membership
As the first institutional member of Dryad in Canada, UBC Library joins a thriving global community of universities, research institutions and academic libraries all working together to promote data publishing, curation, and preservation.
The UBC Library Research Commons helps UBC Future Waters Research Excellence Cluster visualize research outputs
The UBC Library Research Commons partnered with the UBC Future Waters Research Excellence Cluster to find a workflow that would create graphical representations of the cluster’s publication information.
UBC researchers can now access BC Assessment data through UBC Library
UBC Library has extensive expertise in stewarding licensed data, and the addition of the Data Advice and Inventory Extracts provided by BC Assessment to its available datasets on Abacus is a huge win for the UBC research community.
The UBC Library Research Commons integrates open-source data discovery tool Geodisy with Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR)
The UBC Library Research Commons has released a major update to the open-source data discovery tool Geodisy.